Hi, I'm Jimmy Evans, and this is the Marriage Day podcast. On this season of the podcast, we're

highlighting one of my favorite teaching series. Marriage on the Rock was first printed in 1994,

and has helped millions of couples since. In Marriage on the Rock, we cover what it takes to have a

successful biblical marriage in today's

episode i'm talking about the power of positive communication enjoy this teaching

communication is the way we know people i mean you can't know a person in marriage unless you

communicate it's how you fall in love. It's how you become one.

I mean, it's just, it's how we understand the other person's heart. It's how we talk about

problems. It's how we resolve issues. It's how we talk about needs. It is so important.

You know, when an enemy, when you're fighting an enemy, one of the things they want to do in war

is to cut your communication

lines. They don't want you communicating with each other because once they cut your

communication, they can confuse you and defeat you. So in marriage, the enemy does not want

us to communicate. So he's always trying everything he can to violate and cut the communication lines within our marriages.

And so I want to talk about just the importance of communication in marriage.

And I'm going to talk about two things.

The first thing I want to talk about is avoiding the common dangers and problems of communication

in marriage.

Just avoiding the common problems. And in there two. One is not

understanding the power of words. And this is very important. Now, you know, we live in a smart

elite society, a very vulgar, smart eleky society where people use words very carelessly.

In fact, when you watch television, this has gotten worse. It's gotten

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